The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the creation of our country. Racism is deeply rooted in America.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.

I am an Author a person who plays with words so they can dance in the minds of others

Put a little fence around it!

What a loving God we serve! Not only has He prepared a heavenly dwelling for us, but His angels also accompany us as we transition from this world to the next.

The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.

Youd be surprised how inspired youll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.